Keysight Technologies, Inc. — 4 confirmed MA-L prefixes

A MAC address beginning with 00:1B:6E, 80:09:02, 00:1A:C5, or 2C:D1:DA belongs to Keysight Technologies, Inc., and typically identifies network and protocol test equipment — Ethernet traffic generators, protocol analyzers, and related lab or production-test hardware — rather than a consumer device.

Keysight is the November 2014 spin-off of Agilent Technologies' electronic-measurement business, itself tracing back to the original Hewlett-Packard test-and-measurement division founded in 1939. The company trades publicly as NYSE: KEYS and employed roughly 9,500 people across 30 countries at spin-off, headquartered at 1400 Fountaingrove Parkway, Santa Rosa, CA.

IEEE's registry ties three of the four confirmed prefixes (00:1B:6E, 80:09:02, 00:1A:C5) to that Santa Rosa address, while the fourth (2C:D1:DA) is registered to a Honolulu, HI address. That is likely a registration agent or an acquired-business address rather than a second corporate site — flagged here as a data quirk, not resolved.

Keysight's own product lines corroborate the ethernet allocations: its network test-hardware chassis platforms and the AresONE family generate and validate Ethernet traffic from 100GE to 800GE, alongside L2-L3 protocol test tools such as IxNetwork, IxANVL, and IxVerify — exactly the class of device that would carry a vendor-registered MAC on a physical test-equipment interface, not a shell registration.

IEEE's public OUI export carries no registration-date field. Any "date registered" shown by third-party aggregators such as maclookup.app (per-prefix dates spanning 2006-2014 for these blocks) is a database artifact of that tool's own ingestion process, not an IEEE fact, and is not recorded here as one.

IEEE assignment

4 prefixes → Keysight Technologies, Inc. [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry lines 9901, 11393, 25684, 32664

Registry / block size

MA-L (24-bit OUI) x4 [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

HQ / country

1400 Fountaingrove Pkwy, Santa Rosa, CA 95403, US (registered address for 3 of 4 prefixes) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Secondary registered address

2800 Woodlawn Drive, #271, Honolulu, HI 96822, US (registered to prefix 2C:D1:DA only) [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry line 32664

Company status

active, NYSE: KEYS [Confirmed] — investor.keysight.com

Device types

network/protocol test hardware (Ethernet traffic generators, analyzers, AresONE family) [Confirmed] — keysight.com

Notable products

AresONE, IxNetwork, IxANVL, IxVerify [Confirmed] — keysight.com

Verified prefixes (all MA-L, Keysight Technologies, Inc.)

00:1B:6E, 80:09:02, 00:1A:C5, 2C:D1:DA [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry

Additional block reported by third-party aggregator

00:50:C2:C7:C (IAB) per maclookup.app; not confirmed against the in-repo IEEE registry export in this pass [Likely] — maclookup.app/vendors/keysight-technologies-inc

Registration date

Unknown — IEEE's public OUI registry publishes no assignment/registration date field; third-party per-prefix dates (e.g. maclookup.app, 2006-2014) are database artifacts of that tool, not IEEE facts [Unknown] — maclookup.app (flagged, not recorded as an IEEE fact)

Company lineage

November 2014 spin-off of Agilent Technologies' electronic-measurement business; traces to Hewlett-Packard's original T&M division (1939) [Confirmed] — investor.keysight.com, fiercewireless.com, engineering.nyu.edu

Related vendors

Agilent Technologies (predecessor / spin-off parent), Hewlett-Packard (historic lineage) [Confirmed] — investor.keysight.com

Security context

no CVE or abuse findings surfaced in this pass; a dedicated security-advisory search was not performed [Unknown] — n/a

Analyst note

multiple independent OUI assignments plus a corroborated network-test product line and a verifiable public-company identity indicate a substantive, non-shell registration; a Keysight OUI reliably identifies test/lab equipment, not consumer hardware.